sabato 31 dicembre 2016

The Australian Space Forecast Centre
issued a Geomagnetic Disturbance Warning on December 29 at 0010
UTC.

“A recurrent equatorial coronal hole
will soon reach geoeffective location on the solar disk. The size of the current
coronal hole is relatively larger compared to its characteristics during the
previous rotation. The co-rotating interaction region and subsequent high speed
streams associated with the coronal hole is expected to affect Earth from late
30 December. Auroras may be visible on the local nights of 30 and 31 December in
Tasmania and possibly from the coastline of Victoria.”

The warning said to expect active
geomagnetic conditions on December 30 and 31.

The past two and a half weeks have seen
seven days with zero sunspots, spread over four periods of one to three days
each.

** AUSTRALIA. 17840, UT Fri Dec 30 at 2105, RA opening ``RN Summer`` on New
Year`s Eve, by playing a year-old discussion at the beginning of 2016 and what
it might bring; S5-S3. Dec and Jan are always full of summer replacement shows
on RN and Radio Australia. So what does the online program schedule say? Nothing
is shown for the 21-22 UT hour this day. Suspect they are not keeping that
up-to-date, as for Sat at 13-15 London Time it shows ``ABC Xmas Special``! And
more of that for Sunday at 01-11 --- and still shows `Sunday Night` for 11-15
UT, which has just been canceled, but maybe will be in reruns for a month? Hey,
it does not give the dates, just the days of week, so we are presented with the
past rather than the future (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

**
BRAZIL. 9674.90, Dec 30 at 0711, now R. Canção Nova is on and in the clear, but
weak S1-S4; do hear a timecheck for after ``5 horas`` = BDT; a bit better S5 at
0738 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. 530, Dec
31 at 0300, Radio Rebelde IS of some notes from Cuban NA and then some
electronic tones; presumably from the Isla de Juventud (ex-Pinos) transmitter,
above Enciclopedia but not as dominant as last time, and also mixing with
`K530AM` Vance AFB.

Strangely, Fox ``news`` // 960 KGWA is cutting in
and out, almost sounds like the Vance transmitter is doing it as the PSA loop
stops when this happens. However, we have had high winds and some bimetal
shorting may be causing anomalies like this and 15280 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 6165, Dec 31 at 0226, no signal from RHC, and
6000 is S9+30 of open carrier/dead air, so English listeners are totally out of
luck, tsk2. 6060 however, S9+25 of Spanish is modulating OK, even without the
usual distortion, and with lite Brazilian het (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** KURDISTAN [non]. 11600, Dec 30 at 1455, Kurdish
music good at S9, stops at 1500 for a sesquiminute of dead air but I do not hear
any carrier break, then some more music, finally at 1503.5 Denge Kurdistanye ID
and talk. Latest info from Ivo Ivanov Dec 30, DX ReMix News #985 schedule of
clandestines in time order, has 11600 D.K. at 13-16 via PRIDNESTROVYE but also
at 15-16 via FRANCE, so there must be some uncertainty about the 15-16 hour:
there was definitely no echo but there could have been a smooth site switch at
1500 during the dead air.

7455, Dec 30 at 2129, ME music at S6, unseems
Qur`an. NO RTTY now which infests this frequency all-night here. HFCC shows BRB
has registered 7455 at 1600-2130 via KCH in Kurdish, and Aoki shows 1930-2130 is
Denge Kurdistanye via Moldova = PRIDNESTROVYE, as well as at 1600-1930 via
France. And DX ReMix agrees. I didn`t realize it must have been about to sign
off, until *0330 on 7350 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

**
MADAGASCAR. 5008v, Dec 31 at 0215 and later chex, no sign of RNM, nor the last
night or two (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MADAGASCAR.
17640, Dec 30 at 1830, MWV is the SSOB by far yet from the other worldside, much
stronger than 17775 KVOH and 17790 WRMI, at the moment playing secular song in a
break between proselytizing. I think it was the same a bihour later, tuning in a
bit later in the English hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. UNIDENTIFIED. 1450, Dec 31 at 0251 UT as I tune
past, slightly and momentarily atop the pileup mentions KOCO weather, high
48(?). Which means it`s an Oklahoma station not too far from OKC, whence
``channel 5`` (7) supplies the forecasts, so most likely KGFF Shawnee, but also
possibly KSIW Woodward, unlikely KWHW Altus (ex-harmonicizer circa 2900v). I
look around http://www.kgff.com for a
connexion to KOCO without finding any, nor on their active FB. But that`s not
unusual for such deals to be uncredited.

We are informed in fine print
at the bottom that ``KGFF Radio is a broadcast service of the Citizen Potawatomi
Nation``, one of the lesser tribes, so does KGFF do any native programming?
You`d never know it from their website with hardly any program info except `Mike
in the Morning`. There is an unlabeled gallery of fairly old/deceased pop stars.
NRC AM Log shows format as OLD from Westwood One. I try to Listen Live around
0500 UT, but from Surfer Network get an Access Denied, streaming unavailable due
to content. KGFF is barely audible on 1450 daytime groundwave mixing with KSIW
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S
A. WORLD OF RADIO 1858 monitoring: not confirmed UT Sat Dec 31 at 0047 on WBCQ,
9330v-CUSB where there is no signal; maybe on but not propagating, as 9265 WINB
achieves but a JBA carrier. Next:

Sat 0730 HLR 6190-CUSB to SW

Sat
1530 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW

Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND

Sat 2330 WBCQ
9330v-CUSB to WSW

Sun 0410v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND

Sun 1130 HLR 9485-CUSB
to SW

Mon 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW

Mon 0400v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to
WSW

Mon 0430 WRMI 9955 to SSE

Tue 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW

Tue
0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW

Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 to SSE

Tue 2130 WRMI 15770
to NE

Tue 2300 WRMI 9955 to SSE

Wed 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW

Wed
1415.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE

Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW

Thu 0030 WBCQ
9330v-CUSB to WSW

(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A.
7490-AM, UT Sat Dec 31 at 0130, `Allan Weiner Worldwide` on WBCQ, fluxuating
signal from fair to complete fadeouts. Also on // 5129.8 fading too but not
necessarily at same time. One could switch back and forth, but with ~30 second
delay, you either hear the same thing over or miss half a minute of what came
next. Anyhow, what I was able to note on one or the other:

Explains the
extra-hours programming we have been hearing on 5130-, as his new ``Radio
Jennifer Service`` memorial to his late wife. Says it`s a cornucopia of repeats,
mixed with rock music, free programs. Agrees with my review of it heard after
0700. Hal Turner will also simulcast starting next Wed at 9-11 pm ET. RJS can
pop up anytime as frequency is available 24 hours. Running it remotely from his
office at Deland of Fla. This is deliberately NOT being webcast, to get people
listening to SW! There is nothing at all yet on the WBCQ website about RJS.
Apparently it will all be ad-hoc, so no program schedule will be
possible.

At 0208 he says the latest WORLD OF RADIO will be included in
all RJS transmissions, and addresses me assuming I am listening now: your
service is priceless; no one on earth cares more about shortwave radio,
permanently(?) absorbed, than Glenn Hauser, doing WOR forever.

He reads
some logs from the new issue of Free Radio Weekly just in, including mine of
YHWH on 5790, 5792, and the 5150 pirate relay. If he ever mentions the other
WBCQ I heard on 5120, I miss it.

This is a Free Radio Weekend, when there
may also be special programming on 7490 and 9330, so keep checking all three,
all weekend long. At 0232 he says that there are no language restrixions on
WBCQ.

At 0239, says Charlie Prince, for Germans will be on again
Saturday January 7 at 9 pm ET; missed which frequency. Copy is more difficult
now, not only weak and fading signals, but also local noise bursts have started;
Xmas lites still up in neighborhood? (Of course, I could have been monitoring
webcast but once I`m committed to a SW monitoring session, the computer is off
and inaccessible.) Missed some more items about new programming.

At 0242,
Mike, a good man, passed away a week ago today. Mike who? I never could catch
his surname. Apparently someone who did a program on WBCQ, and mentioned in
``Access to the Airwaves``. 0246 benedixion, 0249 tribute clip of Mike ---
signing off, 0251 cut to Brother Scare on 7490 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** U S A. 15280, Dec 30 at 2110, Brother Scare audio on
unexpected frequency, mixing with something else, and synchronized not with WRMI
15440 but with WHRI 15710, which is 430 kHz above 15280. I can`t figure how it
would land on 15280; at least the mix is not with my strong local MW 1390 KCRC.
Also it cuts on and off; perhaps some external mixing in the neighborhood if not
a genuine spur out of Furman (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

**
VATICAN. 6070, Dec 30 at 2140, VR IS and into daily Arabic until 2200,
completely covering CFRX altho VR is aimed 234 degrees to West Africa. CFRX
don`t get no respect, and don`t get no protexion as the Canadians fail to
register it with HFCC; unlike the Germans who do register their 6070 for 24
hours, but Vatican ignores them too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 11910, Dec 30 at 1512,
open carrier at S9-S7; 1523 recheck now talking in unID language; 1550 still at
S5-S3. Aoki shows the only thing this hour is BBC in Urdu via THAILAND, so maybe
modulation/input failed at first. Preceding hour, however, 14-15 was VOA Tibetan
via Kuwait, jammed and the carrier might have been jammer running over (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

venerdì 30 dicembre 2016

** ALBANIA. 6020, Dec 30 at 0121, CRI English fair in AM Mode. Sorry I missed a
switch to NBFM, rarely a chance to monitor a SW broadcast that way. Steve Luce
in TX had been noting a carrier interfering with the Cërrik relay, but Mike
Barraclough found a post and recording of Dec 23 showing it was in narrowband
FM. Maybe it will recur:

LLAP\\//.``
But you have to sign up for a free account to hear it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** ANGOLA. 4949.7, Dec 30 at 0057, RNA is on with talk
at S7; I gather it has been sporadic lately instead of steadily all-night (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL. 9674.95, Dec 30 at 0123, two
very weak signals making a low audible heterodyne, about 50 Hz, where there had
been only one, CRI English via Kashgar this hour on 9675.0. As ZY stations are
by nature off-frequency, now the new one must be Rádio Canção Nova, reported by
Ed Santos in Bahia, radioescutas yg, to have reactivated as of Dec 15. I had
sought this some times before without hearing it; hours may be irregular or
limited (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CUBA

** CHINA.
5978.98, Dec 30 at 0044, JBA carrier as I am ChiCom-checking along with
Chaski-checking on 5980. Even weaker than Perú, and still there at 0106 after
Chaski has gone off. Aoki shows the PBS Gannan from Hezuo hours in Chinese and
Tibetan, now under 5979 too, as 1020-1410 and 2250-0100 via a 15 kW ND
transmitter, instead of original 5970, where WRTH 2017 still shows it at exactly
same hours. Better heard in our mornings (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** CUBA. 9820, Dec 30 at 0128, no signal from RHC where I had
heard it 48 hours ago, on a channel which in B-16 had been used only in local
mornings and probably appeared evening by operator failure to change frequency
on same transmitter. However, RHC 9710 is JBA, while 11840 is S3 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EAST TURKISTAN [and non]. 7480, Dec 30 at
0117, I am again hearing nothing but a humwhine, during the hour when Radio Free
Asia in Uyghur via TAJIKISTAN is scheduled. Jamming, or malfunxion? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NEWFOUNDLAND. 2749-USB, S7 Dec 30 at
0114, YL in French mentioning TUC (UTC), marine weather. Starting at 0107 is
VOK, Goose Bay, Labrador, via St. Anthony site at the northern tip of the
island. However, the Canadian CG website says VOK operates only in English
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1650, Dec 30 at 0150
UT, country gospel songs in English are mixing with Spanish religious talk from
Denver, and sports talk in English from Cedar Falls. At 0156 UT I would qualify
it as praise gospel rock, certainly implying I am really hearing KFSW Sallisaw,
which is much more of a challenge than the other 1650s (except XEARZ). But no
ToH ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 4774.90, Dec 30
at 0109, weak music vs CODAR. This must be R. Tarma, as Carlos Gonçalves,
Portugal had measured it on 4774.910, Dec 3 at 2218, while R. Congonhas, Brasil
was way up on 4774.964 (and which I have heard at 0725 Dec 23 on 4774.967; no
het from it now). Of course each could also be subject to some variation (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 5980.0, Dec 30 at 0044, R.
Chaski is back! with its JBA carrier. Claudio Galaz, Chile, the only other DXer
who bothers to track it, got a reply from station Dec 27 that the transmitter
had been damaged, but would be back on air shortly; and so, it is. As the
autotimer might also have gone thru a reset, I monitor continually from 0059,
and do make out some music playing past 0100, until cutoff at 0103:21.5*,
starting a new recession cycle no doubt of approx. 6.5 seconds later per diem.
China is still on 5979, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

**
TURKEY. 5960, Dec 30 at 0053, VOT IS at S9 but noisy. The spurious German
broadcast must have aired complete from 0000 instead of turning off after
English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO
1857 monitoring: to my surprise, last week`s show is playing from 0039 tune-in
until 0100 UT Fri Dec 30 on WBCQ 5129.84-AM, as this transmitter adds another
unscheduled program. At first I assumed it was // but not synchronized with 9330
where WOR is scheduled at this same time, presumably first WBCQ airing of new
1858.

WORLD OF RADIO 1858 monitoring: confirmed Thursday December 29 at
2130 on WRMI, 13695, excellent. Also confirmed UT Fri Dec 30 after 0030 on WBCQ
9330.0v-CUSB, but JBA (and at same time, previous WOR 1857 is playing on
5129.84, as above!) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A.
7490.0-AM, UT Fri Dec 30 at 0042, WBCQ with `Broad Spectrum Radio` --- no
advance publicity about this week`s content, because it turns out to be a repeat
of last week`s, James Branum rebutting Allan Weiner`s support of Thump (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15770, Dec 30 at 0046, a JBA carrier is
here! So now I am concluding that WRMI is simply leaving XMTR 3 on the air into
the night, maybe all night, when it is mostly not propagating, instead of
switching to 7780 which has been absent except for one log a few nights ago.
Maybe #3 is just uncooperative in operating on the 7 MHz band for some reason
(but we know would radiate on second harmonic 15560, not that far from 15770). I
hadn`t bothered to precise 15770 during normal listening but now I do and get
15769.98. Still a JBA carrier at 0132, but now it measures to 15770.01. There is
one other station in Aoki on 15770, AIR Delhi-Khampur, but only at 0400-0530 in
Persian, Arabic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1020, Dec 30 at 0138 UT, Spanish
religious talk and hymn, steadily audible with semi-local KOKP Perry OK nulled,
even tho far from sideways. 0159 UT timecheck for ``9 de la noche in Nueva
York`` and at 0201 UT, ``temperatura de 40 grados Fahrenheit``. No greater
service can Radiovisión Cristiana, WWRV, 1330, NYC, render to the denizens of
Roswell than via KCKN keep them informed about time and temp in La Gran Manzana.
But then Roswell is allegedly infested by aliens. Nothing further needed to make
this a definite ID. Sure sounds like more than the 1 kW STA recently revealed by
the FCC to NRC; maybe they`ve got the 50 kW back in service, so they can resume
ignoring the requirement to protect Pittsburgh (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** U S A. 1460, Dec 30 at 0147 UT, two guys conversing in Spanish
about pollos. Maybe the chickens are a team as these are surely the bozos on
KBZO Lubbock TX with ESPN Deportes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 5930, Dec 30 at
0052, weak S5 signal, in, Spanish? I then hear a couple familiar words and
conclude it is Spanish, but uplooked later, the only schedulee is BBC in Dari
via Austria. And there is no known unlisted LA station on 5930. A mixing
product? Cuba might put one on 5920 or 5940, but not 5930 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 6100.0, Dec 30 at 0056, algo talk at S7.
Could be CRI Portuguese, 500 kW aimed NW from Beijing site, a long way to
Brasil. Or KCBS Pyongyang with a low winter sun. But not the HFCC registration
for MBR Nauen, wooden (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

KUWAIT
"Ampegon" to update shortwave transmitters of Radio Kuwait in Al KabdSwiss
based company "Ampegon" has accepted a contract from Al Rashed to handlethe
upgrade of five analog shortwave transmitters, that are more than 20
yearsold for the Kuwait Ministry of Information in Al Kabd transmitter
station. Thefive transmitters were originally installed between 1992 - 1995.
"Ampegon" willrefurbish all of the transmitters and in addition upgrade
three of them to fulldigital DRM integration and converted to the new
transmitter control system UCSthis will include: new motor drives within the
tuning circuits. Work in Al Kabdtransmitter station is expected to start in
January 2017. Shortwave programs of Radio Kuwait was stopped around the end
of May 2015. Here the last A15 schedule0200-0745 on 5960 KBD 250 kW /
non-dir to N/ME Arabic General Service0500-0900 on 15515 KBD 250 kW / 059
deg to EaAs Arabic General Service0800-1000 on 7250 KBD 250 kW / non-dir to
WeAs Persian1000-1200 on 21580 KBD 250 kW / 084 deg to SEAs
Filipino1015-1600 on 11630 KBD 250 kW / 230 deg to CeAf Arabic Holy Qur'an
Sce1100-1600 on 9750 KBD 250 kW / 286 deg to NEAf Arabic General
Service1215-1545 on 21540 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Arabic General
Service1600-1800 on 15540 KBD 250 kW / 100 deg to SoAs Urdu1615-2100 on
6050 KBD 250 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic General Service1700-2000 on 13650
KBD 250 kW / 350 deg to ENAm Arabic General Service1800-2100 on 15540 KBD
250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu English2015-2400 on 17550 KBD 250 kW / 350 deg to
ENAm Arabic General ServiceMy last 5 videos of Radio Kuwait, recorded from
May 15 to May 29,
2015http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/ampegon-to-update-shortwave.html

giovedì 29 dicembre 2016

** IRAN. 11675, Dec 29 at 1405, fair signal in Russian, interspersed with
dramatic stingers, mentioning Iran, as appropriate since it`s VIRI, 1320-1420,
500 kW, 336 degrees from Sirjan. which is somewhat SE of the center of Iran. As
you might guess, that azimuth is dead-on Moskva, and beyond crosses Greenland
exiting at what was Sondrestrom Air Base until 1992, Americans on the DEW line
--- and right on to Enid! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S
A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1857 monitoring: confirmed Wed Dec 28 after 1415.5
on WRMI, 9955, good S9+10, no jamming. Also confirmed Wed Dec 28 at 2200 on WBCQ
7490v-AM, good. Not confirmed UT Thu Dec 29 at 0030 on WBCQ 9330, no signal
audible (while 9265 WINB is a JBA carrier).

WORLD OF RADIO 1858 ready
for first airings December 29: confirmed Thu 1230 on WRMI 9955, good S7, no
jamming. Next:

Thu 2130 WRMI 13695 to NW

Fri 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to
WSW

Sat 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW

Sat 0730 HLR 6190-CUSB to SW

Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW

Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND

Sat
2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW

Sun 0410v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND

Sun 1130 HLR
9485-CUSB to SW

Mon 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW

Mon 0400v WBCQ 5130v
Area 51 to WSW

Mon 0430 WRMI 9955 to SSE

Tue 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to
WSW

Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW

Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 to SSE

Tue 2130
WRMI 15770 to NE

Tue 2300 WRMI 9955 to SSE

Wed 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to
WSW

Wed 1415.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE

Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW

Thu 0030
WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW

(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S
A [and non]. 9955, Dec 28 at 2100, WRMI `World Music` hour remains on this hour
in reality instead of BS; by 2120 Cuban jamming level is building, altho not
``needed`` until 2200 for Radio Libertad.

15770, Dec 28 at 2120, `Viva
Miami` old but latest episode about the Everglades is playing again, so started
at 2115, contrary to Wed sked showing Radio France International at 2115-2200
--- suspect that has been gone for some time, as it really doesn`t make sense to
fill once a week with 75% of a daily 60-minute broadcast.

From 2200 I`m
checking out my theory that WRMI-3 on 15770 in the daytime may accidentally
switch at night to 15560 second harmonic instead of scheduled fundamental 7780
which is usually AWOL: not today. 15770 resuming BS, stays on past 2203, but by
2236 recheck none of the three frequencies audible. At 2302, however, there is a
JBA signal on 15770, supposedly WRMI, subject to plunging MUF after sunset.
Perhaps the 15770 span has been expanded beyond 12-22, as Ivo Ivanov also
reports it on already by 1000. At 2331, 15770 is gone again, at least inaudible.
Nor at 0030 UT December 29 can we hear 15770, 15560 or 7780.

7730, Dec
29 at 0030, `Viva Miami` shows up again about the Everglades, on the schedule UT
Thu as if it were a half-hour show.

5850, Thu Dec 29 at 0733 check, //
weaker 7730, WRMI is again playing that dramatic narration about the Grinch,
presumably ``How the Grinch Stole Xmas``, same as I heard *exactly* one week
ago, again airing instead of `World Music` on 7730 and instead of TOM on 5850.
Once something is in the automation system for once, it`s likely to keep
replaying unless overridden (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Please be advised that Marconi Radio International
will be on the air this week-end with test transmissions as follows: 30 December 2016, from 1300 to 1600 UTC, 31 December 2016, from
1400 to 1600 UTC, 1 January 2017, from 1100 to 1600 UTC. The frequency will be
6930 kHz and power in the region of 300 to 500 watts.

** ANGOLA. 4949.74, Dec 28 at 0142 again no signal from RNA. Are others finding
it to be off the air lately? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

**
CUBA. 530, Dec 28 at 0153, soft piano version of ``Yesterday``, so R.
Enciclopedia regains dominance, no sign of R. Rebelde on 530 as heard 22.5 hours
ago. Original format was presenting bits of spoken knowledge as the name
implies, but strangely kept the name with flip to EZL music. Do they have any
informational shows or segments when we don`t hear them? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 9820.0, Dec 28 at 0129, RHC does it again ---
running a Spanish morning frequency at night, and now making a het with weaker
Brasil 9819.4. RHC is // 9710, and not audible on 11840, maybe still on but not
propagating.

Here we are almost two months into the B-16 season, and RHC
STILL hasn`t put up a new frequency schedule at

dated
Abril-Noviembre 2016 when 9820 was not on it morning or evening (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1857 monitoring:
confirmed Tuesday December 27 at 2130 on WRMI 15770, good; also confirmed Tue
Dec 27 at 2300 on WRMI 9955, fair and about equal level to wall-of-noise jamming
left over from the 22-23 prepeat of Radio Libertad; tnx a lot, Arnie! As hoped,
however, the jamming has abated by 2325 recheck. Not confirmed the UT Wed Dec 28
0030 on WBCQ 9330v-CUSB when checked at 0058, a JBA carrier, but probably with
WOR; and by 0118, very poor signal from Blalock the Blaster is audible on
9329.93v-CUSB (and much weaker than 9265 WINB). Next:

Wed 1415.5 WBCQ 9955 to
SSE

Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW

Thu 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to
WSW

(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15560 & 7780
& 15770, Dec 27 at 1455, no signal from WRMI, but 15440 is blasting TOM in
as usual, so daytime propagation is funxional. 2130 check, 15770 is on for WOR.
Dec 28 at 0120, no signal from 7780 or 15560, while 7570 & 7730 are VG. What
is this about?

The long-missing nite frequency 7780 as heard 24 hours
earlier is gone again and would be propagating if on. Thinking over its long
absence, I am now suspecting that, as had happened a few times before, the
transmitter is being tuned up on its second harmonic 15560 instead of
fundamental 7780. This would also explain why mostly in the daytime,
corresponding frequency 15770 has remained audible. Trouble is, at night, 15 MHz
band is not propagating, but I should have kept looking for it there anyway.
Tonight, UT Dec 28 at 0120, not even Cuba 15230 nor Australia 15240 is
detectable (and 13, 11 MHz are almost dead except for weak Brazilians, and even
WRMI is JBA on two 9 MHz channels).

The nominal schedule for XMTR 3 is
12-22 on 15770, 22-12 on 7780, so just after 2200 would be the best time to
check whether it appear on 15560 instead of 7780 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** U S A. 5129.84-AM, UT Wed Dec 28 at 0138, this WBCQ is on
again during what is scheduled as a multi-day hiatus. A show for Labor Day 2014
is announced; host says he got a postcard for a radio drawing. It`s `Ramsey`s
Roadhouse`, when it was Mondays at 7 pm ET on 7490 as also announced. Another
prize was Allan Weiner`s book ``Access to the Airwaves``. So for some reason,
this WBCQ frequency is getting more airtime by playing old archive shows, such
as this one, which in the meantime has changed name to `Furthermore 29/54``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A.
1130, Dec 28 at 0149 UT, sports talk in English on steady and dominant S9+20
signal, presumed 50 kW KWKH Shreveport, but then fades a bit. I continue to
think their pattern is out of whack, to throw so much signal this way, if not
just N-D as in daytime (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** YEMEN [non]. 11860, Dec 27 at 1445, Republic of
Yemen Radio is still very good S9+20 with some of the great triumphal music they
play, presumed via SAUDI ARABIA. But one must not forget that this exists due to
the horrible civil war in Yemen. Sana`a`s own SW station, whatever the
government, never had a signal like this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

martedì 27 dicembre 2016

** ARMENIA. 12020, Dec 26 after 0100, no signal from SM Radio International,
special to S America. The final repeat, 7305 at 0300 to North America, finds no
signal at 0311, and a JBA carrier at 0342. Sorry, but Armenia is just not a
suitable site for reaching North America under the circumstances (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL. 11925.0, Dec 26 at 2226, enthusiastic
Brazuguese talk, maybe a game, VP weak S3, so R. Bandeirantes has normalized its
frequency which has been on 11925.2 for months. Next up the dial, Rádio RB2, is
still split on 11934.68, S2. 11925.0 again after 0230 check Dec 27 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. 530, Dec 27 at 0320,
surprised to hear Spanish talk about béisbol, R. Rebelde // 1180 and a bit of an
echo against // 5025. Atop music from presumed R. Enciclopedia, which is
normally dominant, listed 10 kW from nearest Villa María, Ciudad de la Habana.
WRTH 2017 shows two Rebeldes on 530: unknown power in Caribe, Isla de Juventud,
and 1 kW in far Guantánamo.

Rebelde is also atop my local Vance AFB TIS
with fake call K530AM, announced at irregular intervals, among still running
continuous PSA loops, including what to do when a hurricane is approaching.
Oklahoma?

** EGYPT. 9900.32, Dec 26 at 2217, weak
off-frequency carrier with whine, but no modulation audible. Surely it`s R.
Cairo, 2115-2245 English to Europe as scheduled on 9900 per WRTH 2017; alternate
frequency is 9800, nothing heard. But also seems to be an even weaker carrier on
9900 even (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

**
EUROPE. 7700 & 9300, Dec 26 at 2216, no signals from Free Radio Service
Holland, which was going to do a broadcast until 2230, not especially for North
America. I read too late that they switched to 9335 to avoid some QRM, but doubt
it would have been audible either. They had also mixed up the date previously as
Dec 25 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GERMANY. 6080, Dec 26
at 0002, two very poor signals mixing, making a fast SAH, as I am checking for
the Radio Mi Amigo 2-hour special to North America via Nauen. The other one is
presumably R. Marumby, Brasil which I expected to be a problem, but even lacking
it, there would not be enough signal from Nauen. Sorry, doldrums of solar cycle
plus low winter MUFs call for a closer single-hop site, like WRMI. But thanks
for trying to keep SW serving North America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** MADAGASCAR [non]. 5008v, Dec 27 at 0242, no sign of RNM, nor
on the hi side of 5010. ANGOLA also absent on lo side of 4950. Both off or just
awful propagation from Africa? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 3878.92-AM, Dec
27 at 0247, WA1HLR, Timtron commenting on how poor propagation is now even on
75m; his contact is not on same frequency but 3880.21-AM. Shame on me for
listening to hAMs with BFO on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

**
U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1857 monitoring: confirmed UT Monday December 26 after
0400 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5130v-AM, very poor but identifiable; also confirmed UT
Mon Dec 26 after 0430 on WRMI 9955, this time S9+10 with no jamming. Also
confirmed UT Tue Dec 27 at 0030 on WBCQ 9330v-CUSB, fair. Also confirmed UT Tue
Dec 27 at 0030 on WRMI 7730, good. Next:

Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 to SSE

Tue
2130 WRMI 15770 to NE

Tue 2300 WRMI 9955 to SSE

Wed 0030 WBCQ
9330v-CUSB to WSW

Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW

Thu 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB
to WSW

(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7302-USB, Dec
26 at 1437, AF MARS net, several radio chex with abbr`d call as ``SLA``,
fonetikaly, eventually becoming evident that full call is AFS6LA. Strange
skipping the number, but if you`re informally shortening, I guess you can do it
however you like. NCS is AFA6EA with a VG signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** U S A. 7490, Sunday December 25 at *2155, WBCQ IS & ID
runup to sign-on, and 2200 `Marion`s Attic` as per schedule. Was checking around
2130 for `French Dog Radio` as heard exactly one week before by Mark Coady,
Ont., presumed from WBCQ but he got no ID, so possibly a pirate/imposter. BTW, I
am now wondering if it was really `Dead Frog Radio`, a known WBCQ show elsewhen,
from the alleged prisoner.

**
U S A. 7780, Dec 26 at 2230, WRMI has finally reactivated this frequency, S7-S9
with nothing but BS, much weaker than 7730, 7570 as 7780 is on the 44 degree
antenna toward Europe like its counterpart 15770 which has not been missing in
the daytime but off the air now. Had not been heard at all since Nov 21, nor on
15560 = 2 x 7780 which happened Nov 13. 7780 still audible but VP at 0030 &
0236 Dec 27 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A.
880, Dec 27 at 0313 UT, Spanish giving an AC 713 phone (Houston TX), ``Aleluya
Bróádcasting Nétwork``. On E-W antenna, no KRVN to speak of, but bigsig from
KHAC AZ on 880-USB, none of that on LSB, only this, which has to be KJOZ Conroe
TX, 10/1 kW U4, which has undergone a big change since the 2016-2017 NRC AM Log
August deadline which had it as UC:NWS/TLK/SPT - YSR (in English). It also has
an application for 5/l.2 kW U4 and change CoL to Baytown. Radio-Locator does
have it as Radio Aleluya but still old facilities. This group has more and more
AM & FM stations around Houston (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15080, Dec 26 at 1448, S3-S6 AM carrier. Only All India
Radio, Sound of Hope and an occasional pirate (no more Iran) dare to broadcast
within the off-route aero band, but none listed on 15080. Soon carrier is
replaced by OTH radar pulsing from 15068 to 15090 or so. Suspect the carrier was
tuneup for the OTH radar; is that typical behavior from Russia or elsewhere?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)